Tuesday’s Blog – The Faith of the Ant!

Tuesday’s Blog – The Faith of the Ant!

Proverbs 6:6-8 – (Paraphrased) Go observe the ant, you who are indolent. Consider the way of the ant and be wise. The ant has no leader, no overseer or ruler. Yet she supplies food for the summer and a harvest for the winter.

Bible Challenges and Comments

Faith is evident from the very beginning of time, yet it is argued by the world that faith is not a reliable source of belief, so I say; “How foolish is it to believe that since it takes faith to believe such foolishness”. 

Faith was evident in the life of Abel the first Son of Adam. Faith in God caused Abel to offer to God a more excellent sacrifice to God than that of Cain. Abel obtained a witness from God that is still visible today. That visibility is still available today because Abel is dead and buried, but his sacrifice still speaks.

God testified of the sacrifices of Abel in that these were “gifts” to God. What? Does not Cain’s sacrifice speak too? Yes, Cain’s sacrifice speaks as clearly and Cain is just as dead as Abel, but there the difference is that Cain’s offering did not did not please God, therefore Cain has no reward, his sacrifice is forgotten.

Now it is hard to see how God chose one sacrifice over the other and over time, much study has been applied to this by many great theologians, but I think that the context of Hebrews 11:4-7 provides ample evidence of why God chose the sacrifice of Abel over the sacrifice of Cain and it certainly is not that Cain had an “anger management problem”.

Notice to why Enoch did not see death as explained by the writer of Hebrews in 11:5, “By faith Enoch was translated so that he did not see death, and was not found because God had translated him”; for before his translation he had this testimony, that he PLEASED God. Pleased or pleasing to God is the key.

So more simply, Hebrews 11:6 – But without faith it is impossible to please HIM (God), for he who comes to God must believe that He is (GOD), and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek HIM.

Sacrifices to God that are directed by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (out of the ground) are nothing more than the exhaled dust (Genesis 3:14) from the lungs of Satan whose head was crushed by the Resurrection from the dead of Jesus Christ who now lives in eternity. 

His sacrifice for sin is well pleasing to God and if you believe this, you stand in that grace. The same grace afforded to Moses and Alijah as recorded by Matthew in Matthew 17:1-9 and then witnessed of this event by the apostle Peter in 2 Peter 1:17.